Super speed Broadband in Manchester and Birmingham

Companies are now offering blisteringly fast 24Meg Broadband at the time of writing (April 2006) and they have now rolled it out to our network's hometown, Manchester, and Birmingham too. To put this speed into context, for those to whom the numbers have become gibberish, you would be able to download a 5 Meg tune in just seconds! Fantastic speeds for home or affordable business use and hundreds of times the speed of 56K dial up. More details available at their website via their link below

If all the different speeds have you scratching your heads, this is what 24 Meg really means to download times in comparison to traditional dial up. Affordable domestic broadband now covers all speeds from 256kb right up to 24Mb. Amazing speed for most work and play including graphics and video use for the whole family. Figures are approximate and do not assume maximum connection performance. These really are speeds only available to high paying business until just recently; now available in the home.

File Size	Example	over 56K Dialup	over 24 Meg B'band
20 kiloBytes	Simple .html webpage inc 300 words text	4 secs	< 1 sec
50 kiloBytes	Full page picture on website	10 secs	< 1 sec
100 kiloBytes	.wav audio clip (8 secs)	20 secs	< 1 sec
500 kiloBytes	.mpg video clip (5 secs)	100 secs	< 1 sec
1 MegaBytes	100,000 words of text (.txt)	3.5 mins	< 1 sec
5 MegaBytes	.mp3 audio track	17 mins	3 secs
10 MegaBytes	Largish Web Utility Program	35 mins	5 secs
50 MegaBytes	Full album - 10 tracks in .mp3 format	3 hours	30 secs
500 MegaBytes	Feature film .avi at low quality	1 day 6 hours	5 mins
120 GigaBytes	Modern PC Hard Drive capacity	1 year!	1 day!

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